Guys, now that I'm really old, you have to help me cross the street.

Listening to: Bret, You Got it Going On - Flight of the Conchords

So, guess who's old now? If you guessed me, then you're right; I turned 20 this past weekend and it feels like it might take some getting use to. On the bright side I did get some pretty awesome stuff for my birthday, one thing being my new fabtactular Henry VIII and his Disappearing Wives mug from the Unemployed Philosopher's Guild!
It's so freaking cool! When you pour hot water into the mug, the wives disappear and their names and dates appear in their silhouettes! It's genius! I swear, the Unemployed Philosopher's Guild has my new favourite historically hilarious products ever. I've suddenly realized I've bought several things from that particular company in the last few months (mostly because the bookstore in the my university's town has several of the awesome things!). Besides the mug (which my parents got me), I've bought a Charles Darwin finger puppet/magnet and the mints that are just too funny right now, the Anti-Establish Mints! It's really funny because I'm taking a course on the French Revolution right now, so it just makes those mints a thousand times funnier.

It's not a great picture of the Darwin magnet, but the one I took is quite huge so this will have to do I suppose. I also bought Clover a Dali finger puppet for Crimmus, and for Sunny I bought some Hieroglyph-it's (they're post-it notes in Egyptian shapes haha, yes I am that cool a friend). All of this stuff makes me giggle like a prepubescent girl at pop concert. I kind of want the Edgar Allan Poe Little Thinker beanie guy, he's cute! He has a tiny raven, what can I say?

The other day when I suppose to be writing my history paper, I actually realized that the Decemberists have videos for some of their songs. It's kind of funny, but I never really thought of them as the video making type, but then again, who doesn't make videos these days?
I have to say my favourite was for 16 Military Wives where the band is acting as a model UN group who's taking it really seriously, and Colin Meloy is the US representative. Seriously, this video is hilarious. "I declare war on Luxembourg!" Because America can, and America does.
Although, I do enjoy Colin Meloy in an elevator by himself singing We Both Go Down Together, it's kind of funny how he has to stop playing to press the buttons everytime the door opens.

Dear Colin Meloy, you are awesome. I hope you bask daily in your own awesomeness.

Does that sound as stalker-ish as I think it does?